Normandy Sideboard In Molded And Carved Oak – Late 17th / Early 18th Century France

Wonderful Norman sideboard in molded and carved oak opening with four doors separated by drawers. The doors are single-panel doors decorated with a polylobed reserve surrounded by rocaille motifs. The straight cornice with rudentures is highlighted with foliage scrolls. It rests on four ball feet. This cabinet is very elegant and the molding and sculpture work is fine and delicate; This charming Norman provincial work from the Louis XIV / Regency period is a very pretty historical witness. Late 17th - early 18th century - Normandy - France At the end of the 17th century, Norman craftsmen took up the forms of the Parisian Louis XIV style with rectangular panels with moldings, straight uprights, an entablature cornice with modillions, small feet sometimes in a flattened loaf or pancake raising the molded base. The structure of the sideboard is made up of two independent and superimposed bodies, without recess, with a row of two intermediate drawers. The characteristic panels are decorated with a central violin motif with edges sculpted with fine scrolls. These sculptures are also found on the entablature frieze which flourishes on either side of the symmetrical Louis XIV shell.